A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.